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Show COMMODORE FOLGER Thiol $,,500,000 will be Required Re-quired 'cxt Tear for (Jdu anil rrojectilcs. A METHODIST PASTOR IN DIFFICULTY. DIF-FICULTY. Failure cf tbe Larjrst Bant In Oklahoma. Brief Tclejrats. By Telejrath to the Srwa J TO UKE OCXS. Tblrleen-lncb Haas Will be Maatn-faeturccl. Maatn-faeturccl. Washinoton', Xov. 21. The annual an-nual repyrt cl Commodore Folger, chief of the bureau of ordnance, which la lengthy, estimates the appropriations ap-propriations uecttsary to next year's work at something over $-1,500,000. He saya tools for the manufacture of thirteen-incb guaa are being; con-etruittti. con-etruittti. Jtialhuughtlhia will be the largest guu ever likely to be needed for iiaxnl iiurttjRS. The bureau contemplattrs iaeuing ilz-lnch gutuof 3j-callbre to fast crulaerg, ami (iroribte to make no more guns of 30-ealibre lenglii. In connection with high explosives, explo-sives, the bureau has designed Hut may be called a rifled mortar, to project pro-ject a hundred pounds of high explosive. ex-plosive. This will be ruouutoJ on spvcial cksc1s, as for instance a ram. to fight at dose quartern. Contracts Con-tracts were made with the Ericsson Co ttt Defense Company for one submarine guu and six steel projectile?, projec-tile?, to bo placed on the Otttnycr. The bureau believes it Is b-st to await tbe result of further tests In Europe before taxing up any smokeless smoke-less ponder of domestic manufacture. manufac-ture. The armor-piercing projectiles are uot satl-factory and arrangements were made to acquire the Farmer process of Firth A. tjon. Contracts ere made for electric motors to be applied to the eight-Inch guns of certain cruisers for handling tlum The increased rapidity of deliver of forgiugs from the Bethlehem I ron Company and the Mid vale Steel Company, and the development of the Washington gun factory, are ucli as to warrant a belief that batteries can hereafter be furnUhtd shiia s fast as they are completed. TbeSlob After n Murderer. HujmNUTON, Tenn ,Xov.l. A mob alULked the jail at an early hour this morning to get WIdis, who a few days ao murdered Constable Ross aud his nephew. Tite mob txuld not force the iron door but succeednl in breakings hole through it. A man named Coulter cliuileii through with a revolver, and immediately imme-diately n report was heard and Coul ter said he was shot. Sam Seller started in to his assistance, when H'iJis and anothir prisonersuct and probably fatally wounded htm. The mobtlun lied. The sherlfl" smuggled smug-gled Widis out of town this morning. morn-ing. The people are wild with excitement ex-citement A Railroad Alllan. Xuv Voitic, .Nov. 21. It wa .tatt-d tbU aln-rnoars that an alii itnce vru furtnt-1 between the inU r--ts representoj by Qcorgo C Magoun, of Kidder, l'eabody ot Co-Jay Co-Jay Gculu', C. I'. Huntington ana the Standard Oil party, by which all the railroads owned orcontroUVa by tbcm individually or jointly will ne operated together practically un der Gould's direction. The alliance alli-ance Included the Southern Pacific. Union Pacific. MIsuuil Pacific, Northern Pa iflc, AtiliIon, Wabash, Wa-bash, Kansas A Texas, Texas Pacific and many Lthcr roads. It Is nl-o said that Uould is trying to force tbe holders of Rock Island to either sell their stock around the rnscnt pritt or Join hands with tbe other roads of the alliance. TI.e Burlington and Chlc&gb .t Alton will act with the allied roads In whatevtr steps may hereafter Ikj taken. But there are fears tbat the Vanderbilb-rasy Vanderbilb-rasy be angry at tbo Ios of their trail! c contract, or the Union Pacific may ixfue tn join. If the Vander bllts and the roads controlled by J. Pitrpont Morgan can be brought In, s meetiui; ot bunkers aud ralirow. residents of till the roads in the iU ntry will be called, a new oxo-ciation oxo-ciation formed, and then nnimmedi ate matetial alvatice in railrvau rate? at ouce be ordered. Chauncey Depew, president of tbe New York CiutMl, whs seen to uUhtauJ asked uhat the Vaudcr-bllts Vaudcr-bllts would do about alliance. 'Well, as I don't know anything ibout this alliance, 1 could uot saj without IcwVing into it. Come around again and I may tell you," Clinrse atnlnln rteverenil. J KEVrottr, X. J., JCov. 21. Mrs. Aionzo Armstrong, daughter of ' Cornelius Button, a leailiug faintly ' of this town, charges ltev. Rubrt Chew, the pa'tor of tho Methodist Episcopal churchis at ClilTaooil and Jacksonville) r. J., with attempting at-tempting to assault ber. A complaint com-plaint was sent t'j the trustees of tbe church last Saturday. Chew at-tt at-tt in ted to preach at tho church on Sunday, bulthu trustees shut tbe door In bis face aud dismissed the congregation. Tbo presiding eUer of the district will investigate the charges tomorrow. Chew is a married mar-ried min, and Mrs. Armstrong' husband is the associate editor of the KejportnfefyrKe. rallnre of Dank. Gctiirie, Oklahoma, Nov. 21. The (,'umiuerclal Bank, the largest In the Territory, failed. The assets and liabilities are unknown. The Gutbrie bank belongs to a ymllcate which pracllcallv controls con-trols the banks In Newton, Kansas, Normal, El Reno, Stillwater and Whilcnoter. The Newton bank failed yesterday. Today the Guthrie bank suspended, and the tVhlte-water tVhlte-water concs-rn is now In tho hands of an examiner. Nothing hu been learned from tbo El Reno, Xormal or Stillwater bauL. The Outhrle batik's capital was $300,000, tbe Newton's $190,000, aud the others about the same. It Is lielievinl here that the assets are tnual to tbe liabilities. lia-bilities. Milled Bis rnlber and Brother. Cooics'jlle, Tenn- ov.21. A. M. Loltus shot and killed his father, II. C. Loftus, six miles cast of Italncsuoro this morning In a icr-sonal icr-sonal difflculty, accidentally killing his brother with him at tbo same time. The son is said to have acted In self-defecs?, engaging first in defending de-fending his mother from an attack of his lather. Tho parties are highly connected. The Bar Oolaz Well. XewYobk Xov.21. Thespanhl who sacrificedono of his forelegs In order that a boy might have a sound limb Is In good form todty at tbe Charity Hospital, Blackwell Island, and will probably live The animal httsregaiuedhlsappetiteand looks with caaer eyes for his custcm-ary custcm-ary meal of lukewarm milk and water. wa-ter. Occasionally he la given a piece of well brolloj and Juicy steak, and shows his gratitude by wagging his tall, which Is tbe only part of bis body txcei t his eyes that be can move. elk's ratlrau. Lo.NDoy, Kov. 21. Tho Berlin correspondent of the Telegraph de-clam de-clam that -whl'eth treatment of patients In the hoapltals la only half completed, a few favored physicians are treating from l&)t 550 patient dally. charging them from 1 to 5 s patient. A ccrnspondent says thboaplUl patients are only half treated and neglected, often In a dangerms condition. Professor Koch knows nothing of this. |